A not-very-good Jew’s thoughts about Jewish identity When I realized that some people in Phillie’s LGBTQ+ sex grooming workshops present as Jewish, I figured I needed to think about Jewish identity. I always tell people I’m Jewish but, as the saying goes, “it’s complicated.” I was not raised religiously at all, so I’m almost as at sea at a religious service as I would be if I weren’t Jewish at all. Nevertheless, 3/4 of my ancestors were Jewish, my father was raised in an orthodox orphanage and escaped Nazi Germany, my mom’s Jewish education was in British-mandate Palestine (i.e., nascent...